A Word to the Wise

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Today’s questions are all about words and their meanings.


One

What is the meaning of the adjective glabrescent?

  • Hairless
  • Raucous
  • Shrinking

Two

What does the name of the dinosaur Falcarius mean?

  • Ground scraper
  • Sickle cutter
  • Wood driller

Three

Spectrophobia, catoptrophobia and eisoptrophobia can all relate to what household item?

  • Kettle
  • Linoleum
  • Mirror

Four

What word can be added to crow to complete this plants name: crow …?

  • Foot
  • Quill
  • Steps

Five

Which of these words means the 1938 annexation of Austria by Hitler’s Nazi Germany?

  • Anschluss
  • Rindereintopf
  • Schlafwandeln

Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.


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